About the Book
Imagine a war without battlefields. There are no uniforms. Civilians and combatants are indistinguishable. Homes, schools, hospitals, and religious buildings are used as command and communication centers, and for the warehousing of weapons. Apartment rooftops are launching pads; the civilians who live inside . . . human shields. There are over 300 miles of reinforced tunnels, all outfitted with weapons and passageways for terrorists to take hostages and travel freely. Beyond Proportionality examines Israel's battles against Hamas and Hezbollah under the laws of war and concludes that its wartime conduct was based on military necessity and fought justly. The targets are terrorists, weapons, and tunnels--not civilians. Israel relies upon verifiable intelligence, deploys precise weapons, and endangers its own soldiers in order to minimize civilian death. The bombings over Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Dresden, and the urban warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan, produced large numbers of civilian dead that were not considered acts of genocide; the war in Gaza was no different.
About the Author :
Thane Rosenbaum is a law professor, legal and Middle East analyst, and Distinguished University Professor at Touro University, where he directs the Forum on Life, Culture & Society. He is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, including Saving Free Speech . . . from Itself, Payback: The Case for Revenge, and The Myth of Moral Justice: Why Our Legal System Fails to Do What's Right. He writes a weekly essay for the Jewish Journal, for which he has received the Louis Rapoport Award for Excellence in Commentary, and has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, CNN, and the Daily Beast, among other publications. He is the legal analyst for CBS News Radio, and appears on various cable news shows on such topics as the Middle East, global antisemitism, terrorism, human rights, legal affairs, constitutional law, and the Supreme Court. Thane Rosenbaum is a law professor, legal and Middle East analyst, and Distinguished University Professor at Touro University, where he directs the Forum on Life, Culture & Society. He is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, including Saving Free Speech . . . from Itself, Payback: The Case for Revenge, and The Myth of Moral Justice: Why Our Legal System Fails to Do What's Right. He writes a weekly essay for the Jewish Journal, for which he has received the Louis Rapoport Award for Excellence in Commentary, and has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, CNN, and the Daily Beast, among other publications. He is the legal analyst for CBS News Radio, and appears on various cable news shows on such topics as the Middle East, global antisemitism, terrorism, human rights, legal affairs, constitutional law, and the Supreme Court. Thane Rosenbaum is a law professor, legal and Middle East analyst, and Distinguished University Professor at Touro University, where he directs the Forum on Life, Culture & Society. He is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, including Saving Free Speech . . . from Itself, Payback: The Case for Revenge, and The Myth of Moral Justice: Why Our Legal System Fails to Do What's Right. He writes a weekly essay for the Jewish Journal, for which he has received the Louis Rapoport Award for Excellence in Commentary, and has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, CNN, and the Daily Beast, among other publications. He is the legal analyst for CBS News Radio, and appears on various cable news shows on such topics as the Middle East, global antisemitism, terrorism, human rights, legal affairs, constitutional law, and the Supreme Court.
